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Fowler Trail, Eldorado Canyon – Colorado, U.S.A. Jabu and I once tried to ring in the new year among the heaving, confetti-dusted crowds of Times Square. It was cold and blustery that night. We’d traveled from Washington, DC, to be…
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Denver – Colorado, U.S.A. I want our home to smell like the holidays, however that smells. Sweet and spicy and warm, I think. Friends laugh when they learn that we do not usually keep sugar in our cupboards–only a small…
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Denver – Colorado, U.S.A. The shimmery balsa wood rocking horse was always my favorite ornament. Ma found it, years ago, at the Christkindl Market in Frankfurt’s Römerberg Platz. Ten years old at the time, I adored its smooth, blue body and how…
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Miami Beach — Florida, U.S.A. Christmas day in the United States must be the quietest 24 hours of the year. Shops are closed and streets are empty, and the few who venture out to parks and public places move slowly and…
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